You are nossing the point. Religion is from man and god is from.... God is love. Religion is corupt and vile, for the most part. Anyone who says they know what god wants is a fool. I can only hope that I go where he/she guides me.

People who know God know him through his revelation of himself. He reveals himself in nature to anyone willing to pay attention. He reveals himself through Scripture. He reveals himself through communication with anyone willing to listen--and discern the difference between God's thoughts and his own. By the way, God is love, and the human emotion is at best a reflection and at worst a cheap imitation. Oh, and God became human in the person of Jesus Christ. There is more historical evidence for the resurrection of Jesus from the dead than there is for the existence of Socrates!

I believe that the writers of the bible mixed in their own views and beliefs. It would be impossible to completely make an unbiased account of different stories, especially at that time, but I believe some of the writers intentionally put some of the beliefs, facts, or even whole stories in the bible to make a point.

The problem with the original post is that it's errored. God never said He didn't like homosexuals. He said He didn't like the act of homosexuality. He in fact loves the person He created, but hates the sin the devil tempted him into.

He never said don't work on Sunday. He said to set aside a day to spend time with Him. Your wife and family needs family time to form a relationship. God wants to have a relationship with us. How can He is we don't spend time with Him?

The other things listed are not commands. There were only ten commandments. And they were given, not because God expected us to follow them perfectly, but because God wanted us to see that we couldn't do it by ourselves. We needed a savior. We will never be perfect, thus, someone perfect came for us.

As for eating pigs.. in the new testament.. Paul clearly states that it is not what you put in your belly that defiles a man but what comes from your mouth.

Did you know that there are more promises in the Bible than there are guidelines?

People look at the Bible and see it as a big bunch of "You can't do this this or this" When it is actually a bunch of God saying "I will give you this, this, and so much more"

"If a man lies with a male as with a women, both of them shall be put to death for their abominable deed; they have forfeited their lives." (Leviticus 20:13 NAB)I suppose this is quoted "out of context," or means "god loves homosexuals" then?

Not out of context at that time, but add in the New Testament, and then it becomes out of context.

You see, at the time, people didn't have access to a savior.

Let's look at the whole story.

When God created Adam and Eve, they were eternal. They didn't know right from wrong, so therefore, didn't sin. They did the one thing God told them not to do. They disobeyed, and brought sin into the world. At the same time, bringing death.

Sin separates us from God. There was no way to reach Him. And all through the Old Testament, we see people trying to reach God, but failing. Take the tower of Babel for example. They were trying to build it all the way to the heavens to be with God.

Jesus came, lived 33 perfect years on earth, and died taking all our sins into Him. He was dead for three days.

During that time, He was sharing the gospel message with everyone that came before that did not get a chance to hear it. This includes those homosexuals in Leviticus. They had the chance to receive Jesus as their Lord and savior, and make Heaven.

Jesus loved them so much, that He reached down into the pit of darkness to give them that chance.

In the OT... we didn't have a savior. Only the consequences of our sin. "For the wages of sin is death..."

Homosexuality is a sexual orientation, not a paraphilia. Furthermore, necrophilia and pedophilia are not "natural born." In fact, according to various studies and psychological evaluation, necrophiliac brains and pedophile brains have defects. Usually these defects are caused by head injury or some kind of psychological trauma.

Even with the scientific evidence aside, let's be logical here. A homosexual person in a homosexual relationship with a consenting adult is not comparable at all to someone having sex with a dead body or a child. Neither a dead body or a child can fight back, so your argument is fallacious in every aspect.

Yeah, to say you can prove why someone is attracted to someone or something else is BS. Attractions change in every person in various stages of their lives and to say that it is this way because of x,y,z is arrogent. Surely not every person to ever want to copulate with a horse, corpse, child or any other such variation of sexual attration has been tested. There is no absolute in life except death, hunger and knowledgefull pride.......arrogance does not become you sir.

Broadening your arguments because you can't prove them specifically is a weak form of debating. But i'm assuming you're religious so i'm not surprised.

No, its not BS. Would you like links? I could also provide you with the DSM-IV if you'd like. The evidence for it is all there. You are familiar with evidence correct?

Also claiming that there is no absolute in life and then listing exceptions is a logical fallacy. Try again.

Lastly, that's up to interpretation about the age of accountability. But we can almost all agree that a child under the age of 13 or maybe 14 doesn't know what they really want. Be logical. Even if a child claims to want to be in a "relationship" with an adult, the fault isn't with the child, its with the adult.

Being that I was speaking about 13 year olds and 14 year olds you made my point. And I would like those links as far as my belief system goes, you got no idea where my head is. Still sir.....Arrogance looks ugly on you.

Hate to tell you this Rabgix but none of those three articles you posted say anything about head injuries and the only mention of psychological problems was the female who admitted to being molested and later raped only then being able to fully be comfurtable with a dead person. There are accounts listed here as far back as Herodotus! And yet another account with King Herod sleeping with his wife seven years after her death, allegedly!! You try to cut me down with your "knowledge" yet have nothing to back it up with! I'm stunned by your actions and would have thought a seasoned hubber as yourself would have had his information right before making such claims. It still stands that you can't prove necrophilia isn't a attraction you have from birth as is pedophilia.

Those "prophets" lived over 2 millenia ago and if they had lived today people would have them committed to a mental institution.

Furthermore, the Karade religion in Africa doesn't technically understand your God's manifestation in Africa. They believed in ancestral energies and heightened awareness. Are they wrong? Or is your God right?

People who claim to talk for God are really only talking for themselves. They have certain points of view, which in this day and age would otherwise be considered bigoted or hateful. If however, they claim that their views are not their own, but God's, they hope to put an end to all argument, because who but the most wicked could ever disagree with God? If there is such a thing as a God, then no one has ever seen it or heard it or been aware of it in anyway. To therefore claim to know the thoughts of such a being is claiming far too much.

We are taught from childhood to behave well and do good things without thought of compensation, but all god does is promise not to burn the hell out of us if we do absolutely everything he says, and do it the way he...

In my own personal belief I do not think that the marriage of the same sex was ever blessed by God. I am curious what my fellow hubbers response would be if they were asked if same sex marriage was ok in the eyes of God?

That's the typical Sam Harris argument. How does suffering negate God's existence? Maybe He's just watching. It doesn't mean He doesn't exist and for anyone to bring up suffering as proof of no God is...